Ollie Randall
@RandallWriting
Writer, researcher, cartoonist. Studying for a PhD at @KingsCollegeLon, drawing events at http://olliesdrawings.com
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My article on the cricket-playing of Arthur Conan Doyle, P.G Wodehouse and two other fascinating writers called George Ives and E.W. Hornung is now freely available online! Something that might be of interest to @AuthorsCC @CCampbell_Agent @holland_tom @nicholas_hogg ...
How can studies of group activities inform our understanding of historical figures? Ollie Randall's article, 'Cricket, Literary Culture and In-Groups’, explores the ‘Authors XI’, a cricket team of writers active between 1899 & 1912 bit.ly/4ec1dOa #twitterstorians 2/2
Harry Brook is the first England triple-centurion of Harry Brook's lifetime
Harry Brook arriving in Pakistan
Losing my mind over this brilliant, detailed, attentive @LRB article about ... me?! Good grief. A thousand thanks to all responsible. See you at the pub. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
If you see news about Ryan Routh, who allegedly attempted to assassinate Trump, he has never been associated with Ukraine’s military in any capacity. He lied about being a recruiter. This is a tweet from an actual recruiter back in June.
Warning about Ryan Routh: he is not, and never has been, associated with the International Legion or the Ukrainian Armed Forces at all. He is not, & never has been, a legion recruiter. He is misrepresenting himself and lying to many people.
Ollie Randall, @randallwriting has published a blog of his research, including work he carried out @DCArchives into Edwardian authors & cricket which includes @OA_Association #PGWodehouse @DulwichCollege 1894-1900. Read it at: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2024/09/09/lit…
At the end of each year, Doyle totted up three sets of sums in his diary: 'his annual income; his annual list of stories written and the total word-count; and his batting average... the three sets of figures by which he lived his life.' @RandallWriting cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Caption competition (11:08): "Ben, we've found you another bowler! 18 years old, not yet played first class cricket, but farming stock like you wouldn't believe" #bbccricket #EngvSri #ovaltest
He has a special building for keeping oats warm.
I love a Saturday when it isn’t sunaking
BREAKING: Sunak is going to take a day off the trail tomorrow in a highly unusual move so early in the campaign. He will spend it at home in talks with his senior aides. But the Tories insist this is NOT a campaign relaunch. theguardian.com/politics/artic…
A sterling example of middle England bourgeois anti-intellectualism.
a) a bunch of the more outré research is social history in technical language b) funding historical research is speculative, the benefit lies in trying to refine our pictures of the world c) ‘oh only 10 people will read it’, yes but those 10 people write things for 100, and
The irony is, by showing no awareness of the importance of trade-offs between the moral economy (who deserves to be fed?) and the market economy (who does capitalism feed?), Gill's blinkered bitterness is a perfect example of the cost of not understanding topics like this
The arts and humanities are in a dire funding crisis. A+H are essential for a healthy democracy. Cherrypicking examples of projects you think aren't worthy, and using them as reasons to "pressure the Government to defund" A+H, is, at best, irresponsible and wrongheaded
I know this is depressing reading but we have to audit this nonsense. Then we can pressure the Government to defund it. It’s not the taxpayer’s job to pay for pseudoscience. If someone wants to see if healing crystals make Scotland more diverse, they can pay for it themselves.
But like... what did "throwing people off the scent" (it didn't) ACHIEVE? Instead of him going "Ha!" at a press conference two weeks ago, we got him going "Ha!" at a press conference today. Truly bamboozling mind games
NEW: Lee Anderson admits to press huddle he was “throwing you lot off the scent” when he formally denied he was planning to join Reform. A new one for the lexicon. Asked why he lied he said “that’s politics darling”.
Let's not forget that Hartley also outscored Crawley, Root, Bairstow and Foakes in this Test #INDvENG #bbctms #tomhartley
This email from the British Library is breathtakingly tone-deaf. Does the @britishlibrary not realise the immense knock-on effects of having no way to plan around its key functions being indefinitely offline?
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